Taylor Swift moved Evermore’s release date so it wouldn’t conflict with Macca’s

Avoiding a consumerist bloodbath from which none of the artists would have recovered, Taylor Swift would have changed the release date of their last album, always, so as not to compete with newcomers Paul McCartney.

In Tuesday’s episode of The Howard Stern Show, Macca revealed that Swifty was originally going to release her own album on the same day as her new experimental album, McCartney III. “I did the Rolling stone cover with Taylor Swift, and she just emailed me recently, and she said, ‘I haven’t told anyone, but I have another album,’ ”McCartney told Stern. “And she said, ‘So I was going to put my birthday.’ And then she said, “ But I found out you were going to put [your album] 10th. So I moved it to 18th. ”

Convincing stuff. But just like one of the many twists and turns in McCartney’s 1984 crime storyline, Give my greetings to Broad Street, the release cycle took another unexpected turn when Swift found out her album was Actually go out on the 18th – not on the 10th, as she initially thought. So she had to change always back to its original date (it ended up coming out on December 11).

“So I mean, you know, people stay away from each other,” McCartney continued. “It’s a good thing to do.”

True. But let’s face it: both albums were going to perform well regardless of when they were released (especially Swift’s), and even if they hadn’t, something tells us that both artists would have been released at the other end very well. If there is anything to be said for not fueling a rivalry – let alone the artistic merit of the two records – it’s rich people’s issues that we can only dream of having.

Watch the full interview below:

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